Sistas have a lot of options to collaborate with other sistas to make big things happen. In this article, we are going to discuss how sistas can setup a pop-up BYOD innovation hubs where sistas can collaborate on business building and knowledge transferring. Overall, a sista can get a portable Wi-Fi hub and arrange a place for sistas to bring their own device or BYOD event to collaborate and share information to empower each other or as a group.

Overview of a Pop-Up BYOD Innovation Hub

A sista can basically establish a pop-up BYOD innovation hub using mobile hotspot file sharing technology that allow up to 5 other users to connect to. In the diagram above, this allow a sista to hold the event using her Wi-Fi hotspot and the other users can download, edit and upload files and media to the hub. This allow sistas to find a place they all can sit down and collaborate on projects and challenges.

Equipment

The equipment is actually lightweight – just buy a $30USD wi-fi hotspot hub that allow you to use a SD card or USB key. Then what happen is you will likely have to use a web browser to navigate to the wi-fi homepage to get access to files or download an app. You would first have to change your wi-fi connection to access the wi-fi spot and other users in your group. All the other sistas have to do is bring their mobile device like their phone and tablets to browse the file hub and view files, edit files and upload files back for everybody to look at.

I would recommend the organizer of the pop-up collaboration use a laptop or a tablet with keyboard to be able to do power editing of the files and create new folders and arrange files correctly.

Locations

Sistas are extremely flexible in where they can go and collaborate. They can go to the vino bar and break out a bottle of merlot or sistas can hang out poolside and collaborate. They can even bring the dude they swirling with to help collaborate. But we are going to think of some typical spots where sistas can get together and establish their pop-up innovation hubs.

Mall Food Court – sistas can sit at the table in a food court and collaborate on their phone while staring and laughing at metrosexual men and ratchet chicks walking by.

Coffee Shop – the coffee shop is a great place to appear pretentious and ambitious at the same time and worthless dudes don’t show up at coffee shops, just the fronting brothas.

Park – The large city park downtown in a city is a great outdoor setting where the sistas can have a picnic and break out a bottle of merlot or have a cookout and collaborate at the same time.

At Work – sistas who are near the same cubes can work from their phones connected to the hub collaborating together while no one else have a clue.

What to Collaborate On

The best thing for sistas to collaborate on is publishing ventures and mastermind sessions to share knowledge in a single repository. The great thing about this setup is sistas can just keep the hub in a purse and turned on and other sistas can just tap away on their mobile phone inputting information in a collaborative manner and everybody else won’t notice. Here are some suggestions on what a group of sistas cannot work together on.

Business Model Development – sistas can refine a business model and input their suggestions and ideals on how to make it work

Strategic Collaboration – sistas can strategize how to do things like marketing and setting up events to make side hustle money.

White Paper – sistas can work together to create a white paper that will be sold on Amazon and all of the sistas split the profits.

Blog – sistas can create articles or suggest article titles to manage a blog on the side.

E-Book – sistas can work on chapter by chapter or create a book with a collection of short stories and essays.

Getting Started

The first thing a sista organizer want to do is announce the pop-up innovation hub to their circle of friends – which should only be 5 because I doubt anybody can get that many people together to discuss business and doing for self. Make the place a nice bar, a park or the food court or a nice theme area or even the church basement on a Thursday.

To setup the hub, create a unique password only the connected contributors will need to know. It is best to have instructions and the ip address or app to download appear on a card you pass out or speak out at the event. Remember to establish a unique password per session so you don’t have it where anybody can hack in your system and peek at your files and mess with them. To be honest, you should be pretty secure.

For file management and preparation, you want to create file folders and in those file folders are basic list that you start with an underline like _features so they appear at the top. This is the files that you edit yourself as the organizer while taking other people input and your job to organize the information. But you will need to create other folders for example, a marketing folder so the other sistas can add marketing techniques and clippings for example in the folder. Or you can have a task-based folder like membership where you have a checklist of what is needed.

These are the type of files you want in there. For example, if you want to rent a parking lot during the summer and charge vendors to bring 10×10 tents and have sistas DJing as the performance, then have a folder called features and the file named _features and talk it out and the organizer list the ideas in the _feature file. Anything beginning with the _file format only the organizer edit. Then you the organizer create the other folders such as ParkingLots and the sistas get on their phones and type up addresses and send the files to the SD card on the wi-fi hub. Then as the organizer, you arrange all the input information into one file. You do this for each section.

Sistas Now Have the Power to Collaborate Together Anywhere and Everywhere

Sistas now have no excuses to make things happen and work together thanks to mobile hub technology. Sistas can create fashion magazines together, write up white papers together to publish on Amazon kindle and split the profit and work the same job while the black dudes at work are debating about some Dame Dash breakfast club video of being a boss versus employee. Here is a suggestion – how about the sistas get drunk on merlot and then type whatever the f*ck she want as an essay and call the e-book “This is what my drunk behind got to say” and just write it raw with the slurring and taking out anger on fake girlfriends and lame dudes and jealous family members and all that crap – that will sell, be real and original and raw, sistas. Keep creating fiction at the job and sell on Amazon and split the profits and keep it going.

So sistas, get you a mobile hotspot hub, find other sistas to meetup at your favorite bar, park, running club or whatever or at the job and yall start working on the hustle and get the money up.

]]>http://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/how-sistas-can-quickly-setup-pop-up-byod-innovation-hubs-to-make-things-happen/feed/0The Sistas Guide to Moving to the Atlanta Area and Starting a Business in the Atlanta Areahttp://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/the-sistas-guide-to-moving-to-the-atlanta-area-and-starting-a-business-in-the-atlanta-area/
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I’m pretty sure you up north sistas are tired of all that snowy depressing winters, high rent, self-hate crime and violence plus places to start and run a business without going into debt in a few months. Many sistas are engaged in the reverse migration of moving to sun belt regions like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Charlotte and also Atlanta. In my opinion and I been around and can move anywhere I want, Atlanta is simply the best city to be situated and there is no place I rather be.

The number one reason I like Atlanta is how the airport is less than 2 hours from 80% of the major business markets in the United States. I can be in New York City in the morning, run a pop-up and be back in Atlanta before 10pm (and vice versa for NY cats) In addition I’m approximately 3 hours from beaches in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico during the winter and a 5 hour drive to the Gulf beaches like Destin and 7 hours drive to Orlando Disney World and Universal and 6 hours drive away from New Orleans. Now compare that to being in Chicago where their option is to drive to something like a Wisconsin Dells or Indiana Sands Dunes, that’s those places Chicago people be going and they be all happy and stuff like that..nah, I rather be here in Atlanta with my options.

The other reasons people find Atlanta attractive is it is a good transient city to temporary setup shop and live there and get out when you can. This is how the world is moving as I got a sista who just moved to Singapore and set herself up living it up there before she move next to London to do financial technology work but she want to settle back down here in Atlanta. It’s not hard to settle in and get out or quickly adjust living arrangements down here. Housing is a good selection and you can find any style of housing to modern condos to luxury mansions and the prices are attractive also. And even better, it is not hard to get off-leased 3 year old cars like Mercedes E-classes, Porsches and Range Rovers and stuff for between $20k – $35k like that and black folks don’t hate as hard as they do up north so you can drive in style and be yourself.

But the biggest advantage is Atlanta is a great location for starting up next generation business models and hosting national events and setting up as a destination city. While Atlanta do not have organic high density, it can be manufactured through piggy backing on events that are coming into town like an after party or pool party, etc. For example when Chicago Bears came down to play the Atlanta Falcons, cats from Chicago setup house music parties and other stuff for motorcycle clubs from Chicago to come down. I found setting up a business in Atlanta in a way I cannot describe for any other city – I found setting up a business in Atlanta to be fun and exciting and uplifting! It is nice to talk to other brothas and sistas sitting behind a desk about your startup and they want to see you do good – most people be hating on you starting your own business but people down here are willing to push through the paperwork. So these are the reasons Atlanta is just way a lot better than other cities out there to be a destination to settle down somewhere.

Plus, the Atlanta area will be the North American base of my startup that helps empower other businesses and we want to work with brothas and sistas in the Atlanta area get their comeup and you will hear more from us as we launch and our focus is on urban business solutions worldwide. So in this article, let’s talk about moving to Atlanta area and starting a business here in the Atlanta area.

Here is your basic strategy – the first thing you sistas want to focus on is where to work at in Atlanta. You should live near your employment in Atlanta as a best practice so once you find work, then find a place to live, then from there, look around to explore your entrepreneurial options and then last, focus on having a quality of life. Alright, let me start this promotional for the city of Atlanta even though I’m not getting paid anything to write all this.

Where to Work At in Atlanta?

If you are looking for work and what my recommendation, I always prefer any place near the MARTA line. So that means if you want to work at the airport, you can get off at MARTA at the airport station. If you want to work for Georgia-Pacific, Suntrust, Wells Fargo, State of Georgia, Coca-Cola, AT&T and major companies downtown, there are MARTA stations downtown to take the train. But the best station is going to be Dunwoody Marta station as a lot of new jobs are coming to the area like State Farm just relocated all their people from around the country to this area, Mercedes-Benz is moving to this area and a lot of fintech firms just started up business in this location.

There are other places and areas like Alpharetta up 400 North and Cobb County near the 75 & 285 interchange but these locations do not have access to public rail transportation and I found these places hard because of the heavy traffic just to get out of the area and doing 1.5 hour commutes is not fun either. I would focus on jobs situated along MARTA as the base strategy.

Where is the Best Place to Move?

As a rule of thumb, always move next to your job. You do not want to drive 30 miles each way and spend 1 hour in traffic each way and a lot of sistas do this living in places like Lithonia, Powder Springs, Austell, Johns Creek, Stone Mountain, and Lawrenceville and stuff like that. One of the motivation people live in those outlying areas is to be next to their mega church and I would rather do a 30 mile commute to a mega church on a Sunday than drive 60 miles and 2 hours a day for a 5-day work week because that’s get stressful after a while, real talk.

Most people want to say they want a big house with a big backyard and stuff like that – whatever. You can take your kid to the park with other kids instead of having your kid all alone in their own backyard kicking a soccer ball around by themselves while you in the house watching reality TV shows looking out the window like most of these sistas be doing. You will also hear people say the housing is cheaper out in places like Gwinnett County versus inside the city but remember – 60 miles and 2 hour commute a day. If your car does 20mpg then that is 3 gallons of gas a day at $2.50/gallon is $7.50 for your daily commute or $150/month just in gas alone. Now imagine the gas going up to $3.85/gallon which it will again..yeah thought so. And you driving 60 miles a day is putting wear and tear on your car on the CV joints and oil usage and miles – you ain’t saving that much money living out in those suburbs versus living next to your job and you can walk or take the bus or do a 15 minute drive to get there.

Atlanta like most cities are moving towards renting and apartment living and a lot of nice apartment living arrangements are being built here near job clusters. I actually found apartment living to be the ish in Atlanta versus having a big house. You can hang out at the pool, hang out at the common area and bring your smoothie recipe and host a baby shower or a small TV watching party and stuff like that with other singles and have a lot of fun! Remember what I told you about circular economics and sharing economy because ownership is overrated. The reason they want you in those suburbs is not to own a home but to pay housing taxes, hook their friends up with road construction contracts, fine you with speeding tickets and make money off your kid going to a mega suburban school that look like a correctional institution.

I would recommend looking at Brookhaven area, Lindbergh area and Dunwoody area and maybe the places at Atlantic Station. They have a lot of nice apartments in these areas and building out new ones. Remember that you are not saving much money living way out somewhere with more space – think smart on this.

Setup Your Business Operation.

The thing I recommend about setting up a business is to scale up. This is how I start my businesses and how I advise cats in the Global Urban Collective to start. Yes, I have money to start hiring cats and lease server space at a major co-location and lease an office/storefront but I’m starting off on a $5/month GoDaddy site, outsourcing tasks to cheap labor and staying virtual with no inventory. Atlanta has great opportunity but the biggest mistake I see is people go physical when they don’t have to. You don’t need to rent a boutique at $7,000 month when you can get a vendor license and sell from your car and use social media to market around Atlanta, correct? So don’t come down here like those reality TV show chicks and open a damn $5,000/month rent for a boutique and stuff like that. Chill out for a minute and hear me out.

If you are working here in Atlanta, you can side hustle and work your job. Do not listen to hustle blogging cornballs who think having a job is a problem and you don’t own anything – that’s simple and broke cats talking and they will never step outside of text comments with that nonsense. The #1 purpose of having a job is to establish peer networking and upward mobility networking – most sistas work jobs and be messing around with pretty boys instead of working that job to help build entrepreneurial networks and support systems to move upward.

You can work a job and at the same time, run a food truck operation on the weekend or run a socialite event on weeknights and weekends. Most sistas down here does this like sell hair extensions out of the parking lot to other sistas working in that huge corporate building full of multiple employers. So yeah, a sista can setup a business at the Peachtree Center downtown but another sista can do buy-online and pickup at the Peachtree Center food court during lunch hours, right? So don’t listen to cornballs running around the Internet talking about people working jobs because jobs will get you in the door of connects and networking. Get a job when you move down here in Atlanta if for that purpose only of building relationships.

To start a business, go online to https://cgov.sos.state.ga.us/Account.aspx/Register and you can start a corporation or LLC. Most sistas prefer doing an LLC but this is outside the scope of this article. The problem I have with LLC is child support and having a spouse – they use your tax records to determine income and if you passing your hustle income through your LLC, then you sistas are messing up. But a brotha can use his LLC to write losses to avoid paying sistas high child support after he get you pregnant – haha. This is outside the scope of this article on what kind of business to form but just do some homework and ask around.

Now, when you setup a corporation or LLC or non-profit, you may need a registered agent and you will need this before filling out the forms. If you use LegalZoom and incorporate.com, they will be your registered agent in their fees – in fact, that is probably not a bad option to go with these places as a one stop shop. But here is the thing – understand if you need a business license or a resale license. If you are selling from one person to another in Georgia and physically, then you need a business license.

Here is what you do, in the Atlanta area, you can go to the State of Georgia tax place over on Clairmont which is up northeast 85 and you can get a state tax id which allow you to buy wholesale. It is a drive out but it’s just one of the journeys. Another thing is to get a vendor license, I have a vendor license but you also need a business license from the city of Atlanta. The place for vendor license if I remember is the same place you see all the strippers getting their license which is an Atlanta police station off 285 and Donald Lee Howell Parkway going west, not east towards Blue Flame. Now other cities around Atlanta have their own vending license so you will have to get one there also. The goal of a vending license is to be able to sell to others without problems or someone trying to get you caught up. To get the business license, you have to go to city hall in downtown Atlanta and there is a place to get it setup. This is like a treasure hunt. But before all of that, you need a liability insurance binder which is not expensive but you have to get this before getting a vendor license.

So once you get all of this, then you are set – I would recommend you start off vending and working a side hustle while working a job and then look around for fixed retailing locations if that is what you want to do. Atlanta is the kind of city where business can be done at a coffee shop or hotel lobby or lobby inside of one of these skyscrapers without needing to rent an office. You can always use a private library room and they have co-working spaces for startups to host events. Even Ebeneezer church has a learning center you can look at and Chik-Fil-A have a conference room off Windy Hill so there are plenty of places you can do business without paying for fixed locations.

Enjoying Quality of Life in Atlanta

The best thing about Atlanta is you can enjoy a quality of life. Yeah, there is no ocean here or waterfront but sistas don’t like to get her hair wet anyway. One of the things sistas will enjoy about Atlanta is the ability to join running clubs and walking clubs with other sistas. Unlike Boston or NYC Central Park, running down here can be done all year around and it is easier for sistas to meetup at a park together and workout together. Also sports like softball and kickball can be done here also for fun.

Now for shopping and eating, you got places all over to eat. Dining out in Atlanta is very diverse from Flying Biscuit for breakfast to the Daiquiri Factory on Sundays and Cheesecake Factory at Lenox or Perimeter mall on Thursday nights and stuff like that. I can name others like Copeland’s but before I do that – I will publicly state I’m from Chicago and eat real hot dogs and real pizza and some of these places cats be mentioning local to Atlanta – nah, I’m better off buying Oscar Mayer beef hot dogs and grilling myself or making my own pizza from my kitchen instead.

Festivals are very fun from the Jazz Festival to the Black Arts Festival to the Red Bull Soap Box Derby and other events too many to be named. Even the Caribbean parade done around Memorial Day is fun to take the family. But what is even better is you can get on the road and 6 hours, you are at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans or you are at Panama City Beach or Jacksonville or Savannah or near Tampa Florida getting some tropical weather.

And when you want to bring down friends and relatives, a lot of places to throw a huge family BBQ and your kids and your nieces and nephews can bring their bikes and ride around while you sit around relaxing all day. And I really like the lakes they have where you can rent a pontoon or houseboat and go to one of those islands and throw a party with you and your crew. So it’s also plenty to do down here.

Overall, Atlanta is a great place to live, work, hustle and play. You will find yourself in the company of other sistas with the same motivations and upward direction you want to go. The quality of life of being able to do running clubs or have your kids in a sports program is something you cannot ignore comparing Atlanta to other cities. And you can hustle from the bottom up to bigger and better with ease starting off with trade shows to having your own location. And living the apartment life inside the city is the bomb and the jobs are moving down here to Atlanta from everywhere and accessible on MARTA – as a single black man, I thank God for MARTA and all the sistas I get to see. In addition, you have Spirit Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Delta Airlines and Frontier offering cheap flights under $100 each way to locations and even to the Caribbean and you can easily do South Beach Miami or Manhattan New York over the weekend easily. So if you are looking at Atlanta, I hope you take time to look around because overall and my personal recommend, no place I rather be..

]]>http://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/the-sistas-guide-to-moving-to-the-atlanta-area-and-starting-a-business-in-the-atlanta-area/feed/5Out Doing Original Research for the Sistashttp://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/out-doing-original-research-for-the-sistas/
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I have been running around Atlanta doing original research for the sistas which is something we actually do here at Dream and Hustle. While others blogs just copy/paste links or run their mouth about a topic Gawker, Raw Story and Daily Mail already researched and reported on, we go out and do real original research for the black community to provide you guys with original and quality content.

I have been researching how a sista can launch a business, set up an event, participate in events, locations to do pop-ups and locations to do snap team shoots and establish a scene and power house. I will be coming back to the sistas on this.

Now before I go, we got to talk about Miss Universe Japan – she opened a lot of doors for you sistas in Asia real talk. She is the hot topic in real-time right now and Japanese and Chinese and Filipino women especially are in real-time talking about they love the sistas. The problem is Miss Universe in Japan is kawaii while you sistas here in America talking about some damn Cookie on Empire TV show and ish. We going to have to address that. In addition, we got to confront the real issue of black teens girls fighting and jumping on each other and getting shot, that’s real also.

So don’t think I’m slipping, I’m out here putting in work at every direction and making things happen. We will continue the topics very soon and just wanted to give you a heads up. And besides, I’m always active in the Global Urban Collective Facebook group and that’s your problem if you are not a member.

]]>http://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/out-doing-original-research-for-the-sistas/feed/3Doing a Mid-March Checkup on the Bros to Separate the Real McCoys from the F*k Boyshttp://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/doing-a-mid-march-checkup-on-the-bros-to-separate-the-real-mccoys-from-the-fk-boys/
http://dreamandhustle.com/2015/03/doing-a-mid-march-checkup-on-the-bros-to-separate-the-real-mccoys-from-the-fk-boys/#commentsSun, 15 Mar 2015 19:16:57 +0000http://dreamandhustle.com/?p=6713

Hey just wanted to check in the brothas while we are focused on the sistas during the month of March. Just wanted to ask the brothas if their favorite black male blogger or e-book writer or conscious YouTube quality documentary peddler or black conscious speaker is helping them get empowered or if all of you bros still just sitting around talking worthless shit and still talking about doing something and trying to say who is not doing something? Just wondering.

Because the last I checked, Jason Black and Tariq Nasheed is still on the same old shit of talking about yesterday for today and tomorrow. Dr. Boyce Watkins on that same shit different day while Dr. Umar Johnson is running around talking about black people are not born gay and black people become gay from molestation. So how the fuck is black people going to economically progress from a debate about how black folks are not born gay? So let’s be honest, you black bromance chasing bros and the cats you following like dickriders ain’t fucking serious about black progress and yall bros are just some fuckboys and that is what this mid-month special article is going to talk about.

Brothas Want to Hear the Testimony But Do Not Have Cross-Examinations

One thing I noticed about brothas and this can be applied to black people in general is we just love self-appointed cats and what they got to say but what we don’t do is a full cross-examination. In court of law, nobody can just get on the stand and just blurt some shit about you – you have the right to cross-examine their testimony so the jury and the court can see if the person giving the testimony is full of shit or being honest on the stand. But all of you cats booty licking and dickriding cats running their mouth on YouTube and making YouTube quality documentaries and on the “conscious speaker circuit” I mean you bros just lap all that shit up without question or cross-examination. I bet when these cats talk, you brothas get an erection don’t you?

This goes back to Warren Ballentine – I knew he was a punk clown from day one but when he gets on the airwaves and start running his mouth about black empowerment and taking money from you dumbass fools and you ain’t seeing shit from the money you put in, I knew black folks and especially the brothas are on some baaa-baaa sheepish shit right there. Then when I call this Warren Ballentine clown out, you cats want to try to come attack me? Thankfully there were a few brothas who recognize Warren Ballentine for what he is but it is still bros out there trying to defend him and think attacking me was the solution to defending a dude who fucked over the black community on several occasions and fucking with black people money.

But when I laid out the whole Warren Ballentine situation, you same ass bros disappeared and where you go? You went to the YouTube cats and started booty licking them and all in their comment section and facebook/twitter following instead of accepting the fact you need to be your own man and look at the man in the mirror to make that change to be someone working at the mercy of God to better yourself, your people, your family and bend the arch of righteous, self-sufficiency and prosperity back to the black family unit. Instead you brothas chose to stay a punk bitch and now you following other cats like a hoe ass fuckboy.

The one thing our people is going to learn have to do is cross-examine everything because we are in the age of data manipulation and information propaganda. Black people cannot afford to be a one-sided towards one entity and operate in a unilateral talking about just Al Sharpton is your spokesperson and only Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels should make black movies. Our people been exploited and screwed over by so many Democrat black politicians, black families are being perverse with liberals in Hollywood promoting black homosexuality instead of black heterosexuality and black submissive interracial relationships and the news is trying to portray anybody who protesting the police as thugs and criminals who don’t respect the law and none of you cats have effective counter-strategy or the tools and skills to fight this data manipulation warfare. All you fuckboys got is some damn memes you want to post to Twitter and call yourself Black Twitter or post a bitchy commentary that you think is provocative enough to make change.

When cats want to stand on a podium and speak to you about what we need to do and start talking to media like they represent us, you better cross-examine their ass. You cats already tried to cross-examine me but what happened? Where yall ran off too and why I don’t see you no more? Because you realized you encountered a real McCoy and all you are is just another commentary fuckboy in this battle for black empowerment and building an economic base for our people. And you get emotionally mad at me like you on your period talking about you don’t like me or agree with me like I give a fuck what you think as a man-to-man as whether another man agrees or disagree with me.

Re-Evaluate Your Sexual Orientation if You a Dude Liking or Disliking Another Man

One of the things that I come to realize as a man is that every adult male should serve in the military. Because I see only bitch cats talking about not serving the military making up shit about not fighting the white man war – just be honest, you just a fucking pussy afraid to fight for anything at the cost of your life. Military is full of real brothas and sistas serving their country and developing themselves who came in with life hardship and trying to change their life around and they came out better, including me and look where I’m at right now as a result. So stop the damn lying about you and your punk attitude regarding the military – we got a few black people in the Global Urban Collective in Afghanistan right now making more moves than you brothas chatting it up on YouTube comment section and blog comment section and following other brothas on Facebook/Twitter.

I read a comment recently by another dude who said he like what I put out here on Dream and Hustle but he don’t like me or agree with me or something bitchy like that. Let me give that dude and the rest of you punk ass dudes who think like that a lesson – I write like this on purpose to keep bitchy cats like you out of Dream and Hustle. Because no real man in the history of mankind ever gave a damn what another man think or believe in except a man that loves another man. I served in the military with some of the craziest racist backyard hicks who probably didn’t like a black guy from Chicago just there for the Army College Fund and mad he had to serve in a combat unit for his 2-year enlistment. But we would still go to war together and take out the enemy because we were real men at the end of the day – that is what men do, we don’t give a fuck about “liking somebody” like the rest of you bitchy ass African-American dudes out there running around talking behind my back saying you don’t like me or you disagree with me sounding like a punk ass sissy.

Your job as a man is to build a commune for the tribe and provide for the tribe – you are extremely confused if you think you are here as a man for any other reason. And because we live in a liberal society, you have the right to be a homosexual if that is your preference and you brothas should not suppress this urge of yours for another man if that is what you are after. If you care so much about whether you like another black man or you don’t like another black man instead of take information from another man to build and provide for yours, then you as a man need to re-evaluate your sexual orientation and just admit that you like men.

So let me help out you brothas who running around talking about you don’t like me or disagree with other guys to help get you brothas on the right path. Why don’t you brothas start slowly by getting a blowup doll and paint a mustache and beard on it and start humping it? Or go buy a dildo or a cucumber and put it in your mouth and stick it in your bum and leave it in there and grab your pillow – don’t clench up, just relax bro. Do it for 14 days and see if you enjoy and that is what you want.

Because the truth is, many of you brothas following these other guys I noticed something about you when you talk about bros and hang around bros too much – I noticed you are not married, you don’t have a girlfriend occupying your time and you are old in your 30s and don’t have a relationship with your children if you have any children. Yeah, I peeped that shit about you brothas in case you think I didn’t notice – that is the first thing I cross-examine about you brothas when you approach this heterosexual family-orientated black man who loves nothing the chicks, care for nothing but the children and hold gratitude and respect for the elders who paved the way. I have zero feelings for fuckboys and their commentary and beefing with other dudes.

D-Orientated Versus P-Orientated Brothas

Real men are raised by real fathers and elders to be a productive member of their community and establish the platform for morals, economics and prosperity. You can talk shit about ISIS but if you see what they fighting for as the end goal is values, morals and community. These Republicans don’t care about the US Constitution or American freedom, what the conservatives are fighting for is the moral code, values and community to sustain white privilege in America. We can go all over the world and you will see what men fight for and establish from China to Nigeria is their primal nature to establish a community with their values and culture supported by economics.

Why do men fight to establish this? The same as the male species from dogs, cats, lions and monkeys and elephants – they do it for the female and the woman to live in that community and raise the children. All the male species is wired to do on the primal nature is to hunt/gather and protect the community from harm. You worthless black dudes do not know how to hunt/gather and you have no ability to protect the community from harm. Just yesterday I had to deal with a situation that involved someone who needed help and you know who showed up? Nothing but women who I believe could not handle the situation effectively and a handful of dudes who definitely were showing their pretty ass than being capable. I had all the tools on me to get the job done and I looked around at everybody and they were weak – I’m from the West Side of Chicago looking at this shit in a time of crisis and realize yesterday how weak the black men in our community actually is in 2015.

Where were you black dudes when the call for help was required? You dudes are busy looking at ass pics on Facebook and Instagram, liking Jason Black and Tariq Nasheed commentary on the Internet and still keep talking about Black Wall Street and Marcus Garvey. Look at Warren Ballentine punk ass who at the time of this writing is already convicted and about to be sentenced – instead of focusing on his family, he posting up dick jokes on his Facebook page. This is not the first time I had to go out real world for the black community and the only people there are old ineffectual black men who cannot shoot straight and docile black women and zero adult black men there to take charge or leadership and everybody looking at me in a natural primal fashion when I just showed up. Then you weak ass brothas come to this blog talking about what I’m doing for the community and typing that punk shit anonymously over the Internet.

That incident made me realize something – we have brothas that are dick-orientated instead of being pussy-orientated and that is the situation we have going with black dudes in 2015. You guys are into bromance, hanging with other bros and talking with other bros too damn much about your college bracket, football, basketball and sports and other shit. You all on those hip-hop orientated blogs talking about who beefing with you and who fucking for tracks and who been with an ass model and other nonsense. And you talking with other brothas about what another brotha is or is not doing for the community when you are a damn man yourself. You guys are dick-orientated and those YouTube bloggers and YouTube quality documentary creators and other hustle bloggers out there are dick-orientated also.

Real men are pussy-orientated and that means we build everything for the woman to thrive to raise our children. I worked hard to be good at what I do and became productive so I can get some pussy and eventually have a woman I can settle down with and raise children together and I’m the provider of her and the children and the greater tribe and culture. While that is my primal nature, I also see in modern society that women are not objects to fuck and just have babies and she need to be a partner in this mortal world meaning she must be independently empowered to also assist in raising the community so that means that I’m also vested in helping my sista become empowered.

That is why me as a real black man as a blogger can take and dedicate a month to the sistas and contribute what I know for her to take away and empower herself. Let me know when Jason Black, Tariq Nasheed and Tommy Sotomayor and Mack Lessons and Boyce Watkins and all the PUA shit you dick-orientated characters – let me and the rest of the black society know when yall are capable of taking your time and dedicate solely to empowerment of the “black queen” like Dream and Hustle been doing for the past several years. None of these cats and you brothas have not done so because you are programmed to be dick-orientated and that is how you carry yourself. I shouldn’t even have to say this – if you were a real damn man, you would have been done this but you guys created dick-orientated blogs and YouTube channels to attack black women instead, straight fuckboy shit.

I do see what Steve Harvey and Michael Baisden and probably maybe Tyler Perry is trying to do but what they doing is primal male stuff of trying to uplift the sistas because these guys are pussy-orientated towards women and that is their true calling and nature. No real man should have to lecture to another man about his primal nature to be a provider and protector of the community. Every real man should have the innate ability to develop productive skills to support the community to sustain life and culture of their people, not sit around look at ass pics and talk about Marcus Garvey early 1900s shit all day long and follow other dudes talking about PUA shit. Your ultimate PUA is being a real damn man that protect and provides – check yourself.

The Only Thing You Own Is Skills

I hearing a lot of brothas talking about this Breakfast Club interview with Damon Dash and discussion around owning something and working for somebody. I remember having this discussion because this topic touch a nerve with black men who feel marginalized and helpless and want to justify their lame ass life. Back in the day, many cats came to Dream and Hustle thinking this was one of those fantasy “hustle lifestyle” blog like those other cats out there be about. But then they found out I’m about STEM and they ran off somewhere else. But anyway, this discussion that touch cats was the discussion about having a boss.

Actually I’m very impress with Damon Dash interview and he is on the same wavelength I’m on and basically saying the same shit I been saying all along. Damon asked why are men talking about other men – I just asked that and answered because these dudes are dick-orientated and may need to check their sexual-orientation. Damon asked why is these cats keep asking him about Jay-Z the past 15 years and the same shit and they cannot grow…isn’t that what I’m saying about these lame ass dudes talking the last 50 years about Marcus Garvey? How the fuck can the black community grow with cats like Jason Black and Tariq Nasheed talking about yesterday all the fucking time and packaging up yesterday stories for sale for their profit model?

Damon talks about having women around in his shit and being pussy-orientated, he said everything I just said and I haven’t even listen to this interview before typing everything above in this article. All Damon Dash talking about is real man shit that every black man should be engrained. He even said real man does not listen to social media but yall fuckboys are all on YouTube comment section and Facebook/Twitter following and liking cats and adding comments – exactly how I feel about you cats also..and you waiting to add your fuckboy comments to the comment section of this blog or behind my back on your BBS group also and you know it.

But the discussion came about this “boss” talk and this is where cats became confused and this is everything about the black male that is problem today. I can hear what Damon Dash is trying to say and the problem is the other cats around Damon Dash don’t understand the level of the game of Damon Dash is talking about. So the cats kinda threw off Damon Dash message and where he was trying to drive and guess what, I’m going to finish the point Damon Dash was trying to stress but it did not come through correctly.

Look, I can build the empire and pass it down to my children but you know what happened most of the time? The kids ruin the business and it has to be sold and shut down and you saw that with many of the hair care businesses ran by the elder who died and the family sold it off to someone else and L’Oréal bought up a lot of black family hair care firms this way recently. Same with the estate, yeah you pass it down to the kids but they fuck up the estate and fuck their own lives up in the process and I have seen people get inherited something big like millions and they end up with nothing in a few years and broke and busted – I seen that shit a lot among generational wealth and other cats can tell you the same kind of stories. So passing down generational wealth don’t mean shit if the kids cannot sustain it to benefit themselves.

In terms of a boss and this is what touches a lot of the lame brothas is the fear of a boss telling them they are fired and they are done. They don’t have a job, they cannot drive the beer truck route anymore and they need to go to the unemployment office who tell them they cannot get benefits because they were fired and they owe child support payments and cannot afford a lawyer or get to court to adjust their payments. So you will see even in the YouTube comment sections, cats trying to size Damon Dash down trying to say he ain’t got the money he talking about or he had a boss and everybody have a boss. So let’s just straighten up this whole conversation here for the brothas.

First of all, the only thing you own is skills, not assets and that is the only thing you can truly pass as generational wealth – skills. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day but teach him how to fish and he can eat forever. Second, when you have skills, you don’t have a boss. I never had a damn boss in my life as a technology person homey – come to the comment board and argue with me on that shit. I had project managers and organizational managers but none of them was my boss – I got skills and knew how to market my skills in the global marketplace and worked where I wanted to work at. If you sneak on LinkedIn and look at my resume like these other lame cats because LinkedIn notify me of you cats spying, you will see the places I worked at. The reason I worked at those places is simple – I wanted to work there because those places back in the day employed a lot of sistas I can hopefully holla at and get with – yeah, thought so and skills gives me that luxury and flexibility to make those kind of moves.

The one thing you can pass to your children and others is skills like teaching them how to run a funereal business or be a carpenter or plumber or be a professional NFL athlete and those are skills that are taught and keep the family last name going in a community or organization like the Harbaugh family in the NFL or the Bush family in politics. Skills is the difference between Dream and Hustle, the Global Urban Collective and the rest of you fuckboy wannabees out there. All you cats talk shit but I demonstrate skills and you cats run like little hoes from me as a result and talk shit. Why you think these clowns like NewMe and Angela Benton and those writers at Techcrunch and everybody else stay as far as fuck away from me and my people? Because we got skills over here that we can demonstrate in real-time and change public perception. Skills is the only thing you own and what you pass on to others.

Skills take you wherever you want to go and you can share skills with others. This blog, Dream and Hustle share skills with it’s reader while YouTube bloggers and others just talk shit and his people following him talk shit. Cats run from this blog when I share skills and information and talk some “it just theory” shit like a punk bitch when I’m real-world skills. Black Enterprise magazine just talk shit and don’t tell you black folks anything on how to do anything and until Dream and Hustle came on the scene and called out those fuckboys running that magazine is when they started a pathetic attempt to try to talk to you cats about doing for self but they don’t have the skills to make it happen.

It is already established on this blog that when Dream and Hustle post up skill-orientated information, the shit that feeds your kids forever – you lame ass fuckboy brothas run off this blog somewhere else – that is something we all know here. Then you want to ask about my money or my net worth just like you asking about Damon Dash money when you are dude asking about another dude and let me cut that bullshit out because that is also some Black Enterprise fuckboy shit talking about other people money and sales. You are not in this to have numbers or net worth – you are in this to provide and protect as a man and at the end of day, you are going to ask yourself did you do your job as a man to provide or protect the community or were you some selfish ass punk who only looked after himself and worried too much on how much money you created that you cannot take to the afterlife?

Stop talking about bosses and what is someone net worth and start talking about skills. Everything I do from the Global Urban Collective to Dream and Hustle to upcoming Hustle Space is skill-sharing and skill-development because I want cats to eat forever and share skills to their kids so their kids to eat forever. That’s real man shit and that is what real man do and that is what a guild or a collective teaches men to accomplish. Even smash and grab thieves teach each other how to accomplish the heist so they can bring home the dough to feed their kids and you brothas are on the Internet acting like fuckboys on social media following mouthpiece cats.

It Is Mid-Month and I Hope You Brothas Get Your Act Together

I’m here for the sistas during March and is active in Atlanta setting things up for sistas to go out and get hers. You brothas that are looking at Jason Black, Tariq Nasheed and PUA web sites and you ain’t never had a wife, ain’t got a house and family and kids – you better realign your fucking life to being a real damn man. Listening to cats like Jason Black who probably is not his real name and ain’t once talked real man shit on raising a son/daughter and how to stay in love with his black woman and cater to her – let me know when Jason Black talk about running out to the grocery store at 11:45pm to buy ice cream for his expecting wife and then I will tell you when you found a black man worth listening to about empowerment and black community matters.

Right now you brothas are a bunch of fuckboys with no skills to provide or protect the community and no skills to pass down to the next generation. You brothas are fuckboys with no strategy to execute against the enemy who is well-prepared and well-funded to maintain a sustained attack against the black community and black family unit through Scandal TV shows and through data manipulation and media propaganda. And most important, none of you fuckboys can raise an army that is worth a shit and can do real battle against real enemies. Stop being a bunch of fuckboys and pick up the skills necessary to make shit happen and stop following other dudes like a worthless bitch. I don’t give a fuck about your dick-orientated opinion of me on a man-to-man level and you better just build up your damn skills so you can provide for your woman, your children, your community, your culture and your people.

Nothing brings out more envy than a sista doing her own thing and blazing her own path. The hate comes from all over from men and woman and inside and outside her own family. Society will also use media and standards and will try to tell a sista where she need to be and how far she should go but when a sista go against the grain to pursue her purpose and destiny, people around her will get nasty and will stop at nothing to betray, discount, deceive and try to get her to have self-doubt.

In this article, we will discuss strategies for a sista to stay on her path to success and fulfillment and how to deal with those who want to discount her and doubt her and discourage her. The theme here is for sistas to have complete control of who is in her life and who have influence on her life. One thing the majority of you sistas are going to have to understand is the people in your life right now have put themselves there to try to discount and doubt you sistas and you may not realize it until after you read this article.

Haters Want to Hijack Your Narrative

The way haters try to deal with a sista they hating on is to try to befriend her and then attempt to hijack her narrative. We brothas see it all the time with sistas – the bestie she is hanging out with, we brothas can instantly tell if that bestie is a true friend or a hater. We brothas when being around a sista can instantly pick up all of her haters and that is our primitive intuitive instinct to protect a sista to know who is basically in her life blocking her. We brothas see sistas family members, including her own mother and aunts and brothers and we even see male cousins who have incest attraction and other cats all around a sista talking about they protecting her but we can instantly tell they are her biggest haters.

Where sistas make a big mistake is believing these people around her are her “emotional support” and we learn that is the number one reason she keeping them around – for her emotions. This is why we see sistas with a dude all around her everywhere she go even though he just trying to hit it and move on. Or we see sistas with a mobile phone next to her head as she walk all over the place because she cannot walk tall by herself and feel she has to always talk to someone. This is also why we see so many sistas in church because all of the time, sistas draw herself into people around her for that emotional support.

But what always happen is the people the sista draw herself around for emotional support, they seek to manipulate the sista for their own personal gain. And they do it by trying to control the narrative. The first way they control the narrative is through fear, uncertainty and doubt – talking about how some men are on the downlow or how a brotha no one even talked to look like he just trying to hit it and quit it. And they try to tear down the sista and tell her what she know or don’t know. Another strategy is to talk about who they know or who they connected to brag about themselves. But the best one of all – they know someone who look like you or do the same job as you to try to discount your skills and abilities and your looks – watch out for that one.

If you read this Dream and Hustle comment section for example, you will see dudes come here all the time talking about “who are you?!” or “I never heard of you before” – yeah, notice this idiot come to Dream and Hustle and say they never heard of me before – that’s how stupid they are but they will say that statement because that is what haters have to say. Then they try to say I don’t deserve any attention or recognition – that is trying to make me feel I’m not getting attention from the black elite when I got stuff going on worldwide with the global elite while some black American fool acting like he matters to my empire. And then they say they don’t see me doing anything as if I have to show them my cards and prove myself to them. See, all of this is the same attempt to try to hijack the narrative of Dream and Hustle and what I’m about and how I’m getting down. It’s kind of funny and read some of these haters comments because it is like a template script they must copy and paste and use over and over.

Identifying These Haters

Who are these haters? Where did these haters come from? These are important questions we must ask if we want to understand and deal with these haters. First of all, you sistas have to look at a really big picture – the minute you were born a female, you were being hated on and seconds after you were born, thoughts were in that delivery room on how to control you for the rest of your life to be somebody else girl and not who you are destined to be as a sista seeking her own fulfillment. It all started in the family and in that household.

Then it started in school and community where everybody that sista grew up with feel entitled to her and have priority in her life over anyone else, the clan mentality that sistas now want to label as a clique. So a sista grew up with guys trying to hug her and kiss and touch her booty and hug her booty and make her kiss his thing and all that stuff, all of this is trying to get a young sista to submit herself to someone else narrative. Then when she grows up and get into a career, she will find a new breed of haters and that is older women who are bitter and her peers she hang around pretending to be her friend but want to hang out as “girlfriends” keeping her away from finding her own path in life.

So let’s break down a list of haters that be all up in a sista life:

Mom – this is usually the central hater figure depending on the mother but most moms are haters. Moms are very sensitive about the fact they are getting older and losing their sexiness while their daughter represent youth and the next sexy and fierce and mommy try her best to tell her daughter to stay in the house, what to wear and what to do in life and who she should marry and date.

Male Relatives – these are guys who talk all that “family” crap but if his relative sista look good, he want to f*ck her also but he cannot because he related but he still going to act like a hater because he don’t want to see anybody else do her. He will engage in blocking and also, he don’t want her to succeed further than him and will withdraw support from her doing big things like going to law school or medicine school or take a trip to help orphaned children in Africa.

Girlfriends – these are peers who like to clique up with other women and be in the club and other social spots blocking her girlfriend from meeting other guys and discouraging her from starting her own self-branded business. Here is a test we men do to help you sistas – we will say hello to all of you girls in the clique and when we guys do that, look for the woman in your crowd that does not smile – that is your hater.

Male Friends – these can be gay guys or just guys who bragging to his friends he want to hit but cannot get up the courage to pursue a sista so he is in her life telling her what guy is good or guy is no good and posting up stupid ass relationship advice on Facebook talking about what a good man should do for a woman. These guys also try to talk a sista out of moving to Atlanta and stuff like that.

Significant Other – these are boyfriends and husbands who don’t want to see a sista make more money than him and want to be controlling of her career and moves. He will hate the fact she started a side business or a USB power bank rental service on the weekend. So he will always talk her down and try to portray himself as the breadwinner and can provide instead of realizing he can spend her money also and avoid alimony and high child support.

It is important you sistas identify your haters – the best way to tell your haters is just look at who is talking to you and towards you. Everybody around you that is not actively and physically supporting you is suspect, including those close to you. The biggest mistake and most important part of this article – sistas will keep around haters because she looking for emotional support from people who do not support her as much as she think they do.

How to Deal With These Haters

After a sista taken the courage to recognize how haters operate and who are the haters around her trying to discount her and disrupt her path to prosperity, it’s time for a sista to know how to deal with them. To be honest, it is very simple and straightforward.

All you sistas have to do is tell everybody around you that you are going places and ask them bluntly if they support you and look at them and their reaction. Second, talk about your setbacks and progress and how excited you are about your endeavors and smile, look at their reaction. When you notice the ones close to you are not smiling and trying to withhold praise and withhold support, call them out on it and tell them you feel they are withholding support from you.

The key is to be blunt with those close to you and do not stay quiet if they are quiet. What you are doing is pressuring those close to you to reveal they are a punk hater and maybe they change or they will disappear and get out of your way – once they get out of your way, don’t deal with them anymore and you have settled how to deal with in-family and close friends hating on you.

Now, cats on the Internet and everywhere else – just delete their ass but just do it quietly. Just mark them and two or three days or three weeks later, cut them out. Revenge is a dish best served cold so don’t be a knee-jerk reactionary online, just quietly take them out like a classy dictator.

Now those that are talking about you behind your back or trying to discount you publicly and raise doubt about your hustle, call them out. Talk about them back and talk about what you doing and use their name and what they not doing. Don’t sit there and let people talk about you and you do nothing – make sure you always be seen as someone standing up for theirs and send the message if someone want to mess with you, then they getting into some mess.

Controlling Your Narrative

At the end of the day what you sistas want to do is make sure you control your own narrative in life as a sista. You don’t let people tell you how to present yourself, how to act, how to carry yourself, who to date and how you get your money up. People all around want to control the pretty girl and you have to send the message to everybody around you no one is controlling anything about you. Many of these people are in your life for the sole purpose of trying to stop you sistas from finding a good man, stop you sistas from pursuing your hobbies and goals and to basically keep you as someone they can look at in an objectifying way and as a dependent.

The goal of a hater when trying to discount you, doubt you and disrupt you is to try to control your narrative. Once you sistas learn to control your narrative and be vocal to everybody what your narrative is, the haters will naturally disappear and you sistas can now go on your path to do you and pursue a purpose-driven life.

You sistas need to understand the true reason these brothas are replying to your selfies with one-word compliments like “pretty” and posting Kevin Hart memes. The reason these brothas are doing it is not because they adore but quite the opposite – actually they hate you sistas. You sistas should realize the true underlying reason a guy post these type of comments and memes on your selfies because he is trying to knock you down, discount you sistas, objectify you sistas and put you in your place.

This is a very important article because many women, especially young women put their lives in risk and danger seeking attention online and we already seen the tragic result of how black women are dealt with by the culture of misogynist brothas out there.

Many of you sistas are posting up selfies because you trying to demand attention and want to see who like you and maybe you want to gauge how many brothas out there are following you and are thirsty for your next selfie pics. Do me a favor sistas – the next time you pull that selfie thing with your booty sticking out, look closely at the quality of the guys posting up “pretty” and “you fine!” or some Kevin Hart meme about how fine you are – yeah, you sistas see nothing in your comment section but some broke and busted dudes and a lot of amateur PUA and straight fakers out there commenting on your selfies like that.

You know what you sistas never going to see? You never going to see a quality brotha in that comment section and probably will not see a quality brotha in real life as a result. You sistas want to know why? Well, I’m glad you asked and let me answer that for you. The main reason is we quality brothas know something you sistas don’t. If you see the chicks I’m associated with and their pics – notice those sistas have a full broad baby face and smile and you guess it – those chicks have a hot ass but they don’t show it in selfie pics because they grown and sexy. See, the real chicks with a fine body don’t need to post up selfies – real cats already know what kind of body she rocking in real life. You lightweight chicks are the one that need to show off your body to some clowns on social media to seek virtual attention.

Then here is the most important part – the thirsty guys ain’t got no money and they simple and basic. Because real cats with real money, real stuff and going places ain’t interested in a chick that entertain guys who are losers. Because when a sista associate herself with broke ass dudes looking like clowns posting Kevin Hart memes saying a sista is fine or she is pretty, then we quality guys know that sista is also a joke and sorry too and all kind of red flags pop up about her. We quality brothas see that sista posting booty selfie pics for likes as having low self-esteem craving for attention and we real brothas ain’t got time or energy to entertain a basic sista like that while we work on our grind to get ours.

Bonus: We quality brothas also notice many of you booty selfie chicks have kids – not babies but pre-teens and you posting butt pics? That is a giveaway you a shitty mom putting your vanity over your kids…real talk…

But let us get to the most important part and this is why we talking about this subject – those guys who are posting you sistas are “pretty” and those Kevin Hart memes – they actually hate your ass, my sista and you better pay very close attention to what I’m going to say. Those brothas hate your ass to the point if you were alone with them, they would do real damage/violence if they can get away with it – that how much they hate you and this is real talk. What you sistas don’t realize is you are attracting misogynists who do not like women to express herself or have an opinion or be something possibly greater than him and that include having attention by a lot of people. Those dudes ain’t complementing you when they respond to your selfie – look at their faces real closely – yeah, now you sistas beginning to see the creepiness of that dude actually looking like he hate women, not love them. Go ahead and look again at the dudes pics very closely posting those memes and “you pretty” comments once again – you can see it in their eyes that they hate women.

If you look at Asia McGowan who was shot and killed by some black dude, notice the backstory of how he befriended her and pretended he was cool with her but harassing her online anonymously to the point he decide to kill her. There was another chick Tameesha Ridge who also on YouTube actually went further and dated the guy who secretly loathed her being up and coming as a fashion blogger. The dude Tameesha Ridge was messing with was convicted five times for domestic violence against women so that’s enough to show he hated women and found himself close to being around Tameesha Ridge to control her and take her life.

Now, let’s come here to Atlanta where you had Mo Ivory who is a cutie and she is intelligent and have her own voice – you had all kind of crazy brothas calling up the show trying to discount her and harass her with names like Jihad and Gideon leading the pack on WAOK and those punks call in every day on that station – they didn’t care if she was right or wrong, they wanted to discount a pretty sista who had a platform and her own opinion. And that garbage V-103 had a mass exodus of sistas because they wanted dumbed-down sistas and you saw Egypt left, they fired Mo Ivory and brought back the loud-mouth comedian black woman to crack some jokes in the morning on V-103. Here is something funny – when Mo Ivory subbed for the Roland Martin show that aired on WAOK – they quickly take it off the air showing you the level of hate they have for a sista doing her thing.

All of this is related back to you sistas taking selfies and guys are posting “pretty” and all that meme stuff. The reason why those guys are posting comments is because they want to objectify you sistas as nothing more than “pretty” or “you fine” and the whole goal is to cheapen you sistas to that one word – pretty and make sure you are nothing greater than that. Those brothas are working to discount you sistas and your brand and hope quality guys are turned off from dealing with you. And you selfie-posting sistas are literally too stupid to realize none of these guys are your friends and these guys are actually your enemy that will do damage to you if they can get away with it.

Experiment Test: One of the things you sistas can do right now is post a relationship question like why do men cheat so much – the guys who respond and emotional are the ones who are the most pyscho lurking ones – watch and see.

One more thing – a lot of these guys are into porn and amatuer porn where dudes are having aggressive rear-entry sex with black women in a degrading manner. Now that you selfie-taking attention seeking sistas are seeing the big picture of realizing these guys are not your friends, now it’s time to take action. The first order of action is very simple – delete every last damn guy who posted up a Kevin Hart meme or any meme or any guy who type pretty – get their punk ass off your social media as soon as possible, they are not your friends and they will laugh at you before helping you if you are in a bind. The second order of action is also straight forward – delete every last damn guy who post “u pretty” or shit like that off your social media because they are lurking trolls also.

This should be a good lesson for you sistas because as you delete them off, you will begin to uncover the real quality brothas who are just there. You can easily find the quality brothas and just look at their profile – you will see them and these the real brothas who will support you, help you if you need to do crowdfunding and also have their own connects.

The overall story here is sistas screw up trying to attract a lot of dudes for attention instead of focus on the right dudes that will take her places in life. Because if you take another look at the chicks I’m affiliate with, they got photos of themselves in Paris, Italy, Spain, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, private yatch, Miami parties, Las Vegas clubs, Los Angeles boutiques and New York gala events – those weak brothas disappear because those chicks are much too much for basic bros. So with that said, if you have a FB friend that like posting booty selfie-pics for attention, sit her down and tell her that isn’t the way and if you are one of those sistas, start deleting those closet-hating cats off your social media as soon as you finish reading this article.

Sistas should always remember the sky is the limit and she should keep on pressing on because she can have what she want and be who she want. One of the biggest advantages in Atlanta for sistas to make boss moves is the availability of skyscraper Class B suites in the Atlanta downtown area to establish business models practiced in global urban centers like New York, Chicago, Tokyo and Hong Kong and apply what works here in Atlanta.

We are going to talk about how sistas can establish entrepreneurial operations within a skyscraper and the best business models we think she should look into further. Now if you think about it – what are the advantages of being in a skyscraper? Well, you sistas cannot have a white van full of thug smash and grab your inventory on the 37th floor, huh? Your customers are amazed going downtown and have validated parking and take the elevator up to your 48th floor pad with an overlooking view of the city and the landscape – prep them up for the sale. And the biggest advantage is a sista can stand next to the window of her 58th floor office, sip her coffee and curl a smile as she look down on all the little people walking on the sidewalk and think about the people in her life who didn’t want to see her rise to this level of the game.

Patterns and Practices of a Skyscraper Business Model

When you think of upstart entrepreneurs who get a downtown office, these people just paying for a desk and a plush chair and a feeling of being important. You sistas do not want this fronting lifestyle from a skyscraper office space – what you sistas want to do is maximize that space for business and make transactions and deals happen and that means you convert that office space as a place where business is done in a way that respect the skyscraper way of doing business. So let’s talk about the elements of the skyscraper business model you want to consider.

Offer Services For Other Entities. This is where you use the office space to sell products on behalf of other merchants and entrepreneurs. You are not subleasing but you are using the office space to host products and services and they pay you to be hosted at your pie in the sky location.

Provide the “Wow You Doing Good Girl!” Effect. You sistas want an office that has a nice view and lots of floor-to-ceiling windows that show the outside downtown activity. So when a customer walk into the lobby and the person downstairs greet them and they up on the elevator to the suite and they come into your office space, they feel like they been transported up to somewhere special.

Mobile-Driven Interactions. You sistas can take advantage of mobile technology and mobile commerce creating HTML5 mobile web sites allowing potential clients to book appointment times to come visit your office and use a micro-ticketing system. So instead of random people popping up at your office, you do like the medical office and people come in who have appointments. This also allow you to setup a limit to make sure your office is not overcrowded and also make sure you know who shows up and when and more important, you are a good tenant in the skyscraper.

The Top 5 Skyscraper Business Models

The sistas should realize the business models we are presenting are already done all over the world but not so much in the USA but these business models proven to be a success. This is a great opportunity for sistas to take advantage of skyscrapers and establish these kind of business models while most of the office space in Atlanta is priced low. I really prefer downtown Atlanta due to the mass transit station and abundance of parking and you also know I prefer the Peachtree Center although there are other skyscrapers in Atlanta that works just as well. Okay sistas let’s talk about our favorite skyscraper business models.

Digital Coupon Redemption Model. This is similar to the Groupon Store model we profiled on this blog that was set in a high rise in Hong Kong near their Times Square. What a sista can setup is a web site that promote offers and tickets and events and people can pick up their tickets or small gifts or deals from the office. Or provide samples and swag bags as promotional materials to loyal users. The sista can regulate foot traffic on how many people per hour can come up the elevator through an appointment booking system via mobile phone. To me, this buy online/pickup service positioned in a skyscraper is a beautiful clienteling experience that a customer will appreciate. And at the end of the day, all this business model mostly need is some $150 Samsung laser printers to print out the coupons or use the Kinko’s over on Courtland or in the Equitable building to create custom coupon packaging.

Physical Presence for Digital Brands. You take the office space and place nice flat-panel touch screens and a table touch display and kiosks to promote specific web sites for a fee. So if someone is launching their web site and want everyday people to learn about their web site in a physical environment, you sistas offer a service that present their web site to people in Atlanta, show everyday people how to use the web site and sign up customers to the web site for a commission fee. Web sites can book a day or week to host their web site in your office and promote people to come visit your office to learn about their web site and probably receive a free gift. This is a huge opportunity and will work for bank web sites, mobile payment web sites or web sites that use mobile technology like QR codes and NFC and how to use it.

Luxury Cube Shop. You create a luxury cube shop where you charge merchants to host their products in cubes and you have walls of cubes along the wall and a place for people to browse and purchase merchant products. This is not the glass panels cube shops you see in China and Southeast Asia, but cherry wood museum quality cube displays. These products can also be listed on an e-commerce web site where a mobile customer can buy online and pick up later and they can browse other products in the cubes while they are there. You sistas charge for rental, charge handling fee for payment processing and fulfilment and also have an appointment schedule feature for the e-commerce BOPIS to establish the best time to pick up the product to avoid crowds. Please note that the Global Urban Collective on Facebook had a preview of the next generation of cube shops and we will talk about this later.

Clienteling Fulfillment. A while ago, we talked about the rash of diamond store robberies because diamond stores were popping up like hair weave shops during the late-2000s and being targeted. In that article, I explained the best move is like the diamond district and jewelry row model in big urban areas where if you want a real diamond, you don’t talk to the guy at the bottom store, you take the elevator up to the 37th floor where you are in a lush office and meet a high-clientele sales staff to deliver the high value product. Well, this is the same thing a sista can do, use the office space to sell products and deliver it in person in the office – set appointments on the mobile phone and bring them in to close the sale. It could even be a subscription service product but the treatment of a customer feeling special is priceless and they will stay a customer just for that experience.

BYOD Instructional Courses. The goal of running courses is the same as throwing parties, you focus on the number of people who can show up and maximize the time between the customers. So 12-20 downtown workers paying $275 for a two-day course on how to manage grocery shopping and couponing and that adds up to $4,000 to $5,000 per class and you can run several 90 minute classes a day. That will definitely pay rent and pay instructors salaries and then even better. You can run this operation on a BYOD (bring your own device) and students can activate with a serial code to a web site to start the course. (Bonus: offer USB power bank rental add-on) Think of those DUI courses and how much money they be making per AA session and you sistas can run the same kind of collaborative meetings where people are paying for different courses. In addition, you sistas can consider online courses that can be taken and show up just a day and sign up more people to the office. Do not be a dummy like the HBCUs and sleep on online education and the potential for thousands of students taking your courseware from around the world.

How Sistas Should Approach Skyscrapers Business Models in Atlanta.

Now that we talked about how you sistas can establish skyscraper business models and the concepts to incorporate, you sistas may want to think how you can approach this opportunity. One of the things we want sistas to do first is consider running a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to obtain a skyscraper space. Another thing is to write a proposal to the operators and financiers of many of the downtown Atlanta skyscrapers like Banyan Street for example who operate the Peachtree Center Mall and propose the new concept you want to bring. Around the world in Europe and Asia, many commercial property owners are giving space to startup entrepreneurs to create a culture and cluster hub and eventually develop long term tenants. It’s time for these commercial property owners in Atlanta to wake up and realize this trend of creating hub spaces and stop thinking someone out there is going to come to downtown Atlanta and spend $43/square foot because that just ain’t going to happen like that.

The takeaway is for sistas to not think of commercial real estate as an office where she have a desk and office chair and look at ways to use that “office space” as a place to do business in a way that interact with small spaces and mobile devices that allow you to leverage skyscrapers as spaces in the sky to conduct your business. What we can do in Atlanta is identify the commercial real estate owners in Atlanta and view the space they got and research the vacancy and propose these new models and rates and look for underwriters as well as crowdfund a pioneer sista to try it out first. So the sistas can definitely look into transforming the skyscraper office model into a manageable place to do business in Atlanta and be that diva in the sky running her own thing like a boss.

Atlanta is going through major transformation right now and to be honest, you got to give Mayor Kasim Reed credit for positioning Atlanta for opportunity and growth. While every other city basically going downhill and the upstarts basically priced brothas and sistas out, Atlanta is really the only city that has that real opportunity and potential for sistas to make something happen.

In this article, our goal is to help sistas understand how to scope out an urban area to establish economic activity for sistas. This means find a spot in Atlanta for the sistas to establish business activity in a collective clustered fashion. So let’s do some research sistas and see what Atlanta got to offer.

What To Look For in an Urban Area Like Atlanta

Sistas should always look globally for patterns and practices to apply to her model for success. One of the best overall model is the she-conomy machine over in Harajuku, Japan and it is strongly recommended sistas travel there to experience the scene. Now there are two elements you sistas should realize about Harajuku and that is the mass transit station and a tight cluster of shops. These two elements are what you sistas should look for when looking for an area to establish a place for the sistas to work together and create a scene to establish a she-conomy.

So in Atlanta, what we want is locations next to mass transit and the capability to add a cluster of businesses and services next to each other. So that means everything is going to first revolve around the MARTA train map and if it not near a train station, we are not interested. So areas like Edgewood or Peters and Glenwood does not interest us because the walk from the train station is just too far.

We also want to pursue a location where a cluster of businesses for sistas can be established to create a scene and an economic machine for sista-to-sista business. That means we create a whole bunch of boutiques and shops for sistas in one area to draw all the sistas from all over the world to this location – that is why we want the location near mass transit. Now one thing I do not like is locations that have homes on top of the business like you see near the MLK Center and Lindbergh station because the location has to be lively and vibrant and not full of complaining residents so those areas and other places like Brookhaven also are also off the list.

Most important, the location need to be affordable – the biggest problem with startups and sistas wanting to startup a retail operation like a boutique is the overhead cost and we want to minimize that cost because the truth is technology today make things cheap and it would be ignorant to try to establish ourselves at some “pristine” location because anywhere we establish a cluster, it will be “pristine” as a result. So Midtown and Lenox station area is also off the list and not considered.

So with that said, let’s talk about the places we will consider:

West End

The West End area is south of Atlanta and a short walking distance from the Marta station is the West End Mall. I never been to the West End Mall but I thought and imagined it was a big mall but it is not. The place is pretty tacky and it is your typical run down black neighborhood mall with cheap stuff to sell. And if you want to talk about the quality of customers near West End:

Look, you sistas are not going to upcycle West End and turn it into an economic powerhouse and let me and politicians do that heavy lifting. I want you sistas to realize to never consider the hood as a place to start up a cluster because those places have black people who are dysfunctional and they will straight steal your stuff and not respect your shop because they don’t know you and that’s how they act in these local yokel parts of Atlanta. There are other ways to uplift these communities but we are not recommending you sistas try to save them as you sistas will have enough work on your own hands to create the she-conomy.

Cause real talk, you know what they going to say if you sistas try to setup an economic cluster in West End? You’ll hear the local community call up Derrick Bozeman on WAOK talking about these women are trying to raise their taxes by increasing the land value and bring white hippies in their community to buy up the property. That is exactly the thanks the local community will give you sistas for trying to establish economic activity so don’t even bother and let others do that work.

Five Points

The Five Point MARTA station is like a central nexus of Atlanta and is basically the best and most optimal place that was designed to create an economic center for brothas and sistas. But quite frankly, the place deteriorated because of the uppity blacks in Atlanta didn’t understand that they should be investing supporting brothas and sistas coming up in ATL based on talent, not their damn friends and family if they want to see true winning. So this whole area Five Points Underground Atlanta area basically went to shit – that is the best description.

Drug dealers started showing up, bums and beggars are walking everywhere and the shops are selling petty ghetto crap and buildings just went old. A lot of black merchants just could not last and just left the area and when they setup the Park Atlanta ticketing everybody, that just help drive people further from shopping around Underground Atlanta and going there to do business.

But now there is opportunity now in the Underground area as a new street car was installed enabling visitors and tourists to take the streetcar around Atlanta. So this allowed a great opportunity for buying up commercial property and reinvest. We discovered a lot of good commercial real estate for sale in this area at a reasonable price and probably can deliver a return on investment if used as a revolving pop-up shop because of the parking lot options and mass transit and tourist draw.

I’m really impressed with Five Points in terms of infrastructure, this area is going to take some heavy lifting to clean out the undesirables and bad elements and I believe the Mayor is doing a good job already of this. So let’s keep this area on the checkbox because quite frankly, the Underground is as good as it going to get.

Peachtree Center

Peachtree Center is located near the hotel cluster where a lot of conventions and major events go on and hosted at. So this area always have a lot of traffic from tourists. In addition, a lot of restaurants started to pop up in the area turning this place into a scene. Furthermore, you have major employers in this area from Suntrust to Georgia-Pacific and I worked at both places and know the area very well myself.

Now, inside the Peachtree Center they have “shops” but they were vacant for years and probably just too expensive and that is what I’m seeing. But those shops would be lucrative for the location with tourists and employers in the area. These are those shops you see in the tunnel between the two food court areas. But we discovered one problem and I don’t know how big of a problem but it is a problem. But the following two videos, if you look closely, you will see the empty spaces where retailers can easily setup shop in this corridor that is really busy, especially during the week and when conventions are in town over the weekend:

Now this next video below, look at the escalators leading up to different floors and all of the empty spaces – yes, this should remind you of the same opportunity of Shibuya 109 in Tokyo Japan.

The problem with Peachtree Center Mall is the limited hours where the place is open until 5pm or 6pm on weekdays and limited hours on Saturday and Sunday. Also, the Peachtree Mall area want to charge a lot of money and long term lease – and have these limited hours to operate a business – this doesn’t sit well with me. But if you think about it, this area is a skyscraper and they cannot maintain a staff after hours to accommodate retailing and I understand this as part of our research in a future article for the sistas.

Note: If I’m correct – the hours are the same in Tokyo – most of those places in tall buildings close around 7pm or 8pm.

But if we create a cluster in this downtown area, it would be a huge deal because it is connected to those hotels and can become a global marketing tourist attraction to do business. I believe the Peachtree Center Mall has plenty of opportunity for next generation business models and we may want to reach out to them to consider some things such as looking at the pop-up model and incubators for micro-retailing like cube shops but I also want to keep this area on the radar as a potential opportunity for the sistas to create a cluster.

Analysis of the Atlanta Area

Let’s look at some of the listings in Atlanta and discuss them.

To determine the cost of the lease, you just multiple the cost per square foot times the square foot offered and divide by 12 months for the monthly rate. So that place in 5 points, they wanted $7,000 a month (this was the fixed rate in the fine print) and the Peachtree Center, they want $5,600 a month for rent. Now that is over $60,000/year in cost to lease the space for an entrepreneur. What are you thinking about this sistas – paying $60,000/year for physical retailing? Would you pay $7,000/month to have some cats fighting in the middle of the street in front of your retail location over drugs?

Note: Yes, the guys fighting in the street in the video above – they were fighting in front of the 77 Peachtree store listed for $7,000/month.

The whole point of this article was to show you sistas that renting commercial property is probably not a good idea because of the cost. You do not know if you going to get revenue or enough revenue to cover rent and pay for employees and make a profit for yourself, do you? You see these sistas on reality TV shows be having these boutiques and crap like that – those boutiques better be filled with dozens of sista at any given moment to justify these kind of lease prices.

In addition, the hood is not going to work for sistas either as that is an uphill battle. So at the end of the day and our analysis is we are not happy with the options here in Atlanta to create an economic cluster for the sistas. The only place I see is Peachtree Center Mall but it will take a different kind of business model to operate in that area.

Another Alternative – Pop-Ups and Mobile Modular

The end goal is to establish an area of economic activity and the first thing you hear cats want to talk about is we need to own property and buy land and buy buildings and stuff like that. Well sistas, that’s not true. Remember that we talk about the circular and sharing economy on this blog. And in addition, we want to start organically so we can grow slowly up to be manageable. Having a bunch of sistas get into $5,000/month leases to create a cluster is dumb as hell of a plan and too wild-eyed and dreamy with a massive failure with heavy debt and sistas shutting down left and right and broken. We don’t want that.

What we can do is build organically like a fashion-based flea market you see in Paris if you are a real fashionista – you would know exactly what I’m talking about if you a sista that goes to Paris and shop the flea markets for fashion. We can start with 10×10 canopies and other tent rentals like a wedding tent and setup in a parking lot or empty lot near mass transit and just rent the lot and rent the tents for vendor spots. Think of a traveling circus where they setup tents and break down tents but instead of towns, we doing Atlanta in an area domination fashion like the food trucks be doing as a cluster– we can bring the food trucks also to the pop-up space. Or the Sweet Auburn Festival or the Black Arts Festival they be having in Atlanta.

Use social media and a central web site to create the next event, notify followers and get city permits and if on a private lot, the better but the whole event is done online and the sistas move around Atlanta in various spots to host the event. Then what happen is the sistas will eventually find the right neighborhood, the right area to establish the scene permanently.

The Take Away

When it comes to establishing an economic cluster, you sistas have learned that “buying the block” or a community is not the proper approach. You sistas buy up the hood business buildings and try to change it to have economic activity, you sistas have to deal with the self-hate ghetto culture and a community that opposed to having the community look better so they can keep their run-down homes and not priced out from real estate taxes. And jumping into the high-rise buildings like Peachtree Center is too expensive and a risk for an SMB clustered effort. But Peachtree Center Mall is the best location in the entire city of Atlanta in terms of true potential and build up for an economic cluster. But overall, Atlanta does not really support an economic cluster for the sistas and it may have to be built from the ground up.

But we can create a “pop-up” cluster that take advantage of urban spaces to setup a center full of vendors and activity to support a scene for the sistas to self-brand and sell goods and support a fashion scene. That is the most viable and most realistic option that can be done in Atlanta. I’m not going to lie – Counterpoint and Tommorrowworld got me all messed up and it is even possible to do a pop-up in the woods somewhere like a day festival or a mansion rental and just the backyard. So economic empowerment and clustering can now go anywhere and that is the point. Let’s start and focus on being mobile and flexible in Atlanta, see what works and what do not works and improve from there – the best way to help the sistas position herself in Atlanta and establish a vibrant economic scene.

Dream and Hustle bring heavy stuff for the sistas to make boss moves in the month of March to celebrate Black Women Business Month. And sistas over the years took our information and ran with it and made boss moves to set herself up to a path of independence and empowerment and enjoy a life of fulfillment through self-determination. And this year, it is just going to be even heavier for the sistas because we are already engaged in transforming SistaSphere to focus on the branded sista.

This 2015 edition of SistaSphere, we are going to focus more on the self-branded empire that a sista can build for herself while establishing a sista-orientated economic cluster. We are going to focus first on the city of Atlanta where I’m based at and quite frankly, the only place in the world a sista can get some real things up and running fast on a big level because the opportunity and potential is just real and in reach. While everybody else here in Atlanta is acting like they important and they matter, we are going to show how to make moves and make things happen as we establish the SistaSphere framework in this city to mimic the scene and inner workings we discovered in Harajuku, Japan.

Now, Harajuku, Japan is a beast! It is like taking apart anything that was Japanese built and you are like WTF at the engineering and innovation and just straight see and exclaim “they went hard!” on how the Japanese does things. The Asobi Systems we are looking at, they are just too tight of an operation in terms of how they elevate the sistas they represent from limited edition look books to snap sets to tie-ins with boutiques and media empire and they are all that – they built a serious she-conomy machine over there! The good thing is we have adopted their best patterns and practices out of Harajuku and will be applying it here this month for the sistas to adopt to help create a self-branding framework.

For March of 2015, we want the sistas to focus on the preview articles I published earlier. We want sistas to establish both a for-profit branding business entity and a non-profit branding business entity so they can complement each other for her branding growth. Then we want sistas to stop thinking shallow and start thinking economically to see the opportunities and potential out there to make something out of herself and make moves. I really get disappointed when I see sistas online talking about Scandal and you got these fake “women empowerment” radio shows and TV segments that lament on relationship problems instead of how to make moves as a 21st century go-getter sista doing her own thing and keep rising.

Obviously the brothas are going to be salty but I don’t understand – they got Jason Black and Tariq Nasheed and Dr. Umar Johnson and Dr. Claud Anderson to empower their black male behinds so the bros don’t need me in March. I’m pretty sure Dr. Umar Johnson and Jason Black will have the black men up and running empires and catch up with their child support payments by March 31st before 7:00 AM in the morning – okay, I was being funny. But anyway you sistas exclusively got all of this caramel-complexion self-made technology entrepreneur with skills and charming manners and professionally sex coached to be able to show all you sistas how to do for self. But you sistas got to know how to handle this and how we do here.

First, you sistas have to start thinking like bosses. Those who think like bosses make moves like bosses. That means open your mouth and discuss and do not discuss from an emotional point of view but from a point of view where you trying to get somewhere and just need to know how to go and get it. A lot of sistas like to get discourage and quit and I’m going to ask that you sistas do not run in a corner and cry and give up if things do not go your way. There is no such things as failure and in my experience, most sistas just go down a wrong path and just need to be adjusted back on the right path and align back to her true purpose and nature. So don’t be acting like I’m giving you good reads – this is boss talk as a boss level.

Then and this is most important – you sistas have to learn the basics and this will get you everywhere. In the past, the sistas who went off and made moves did so because they understand the basics. The basics is first setup an innovation center in your home, not an office. Second is to understand a payment model comes before the business model – how you get paid should be mastered. Third is looking globally for patterns and practices that sistas can apply to her hustle with success. We focus on patterns and practices here, not what cats believe or what cats think but what works and do not works and if it do not work, we have to research why and not just be dismissive.

I believe the sistas can make moves in Atlanta this March 2015 and we are going to work together to make things happen.